Western Civilization timeline (1,000,000 B.C.-the present)

1,000,000-35,000 BC: Ancient Hominids evolve into modern man

35,000-10,000 BC: Paleolitic Age

10,000-6,500 BC: Neolitic Age

6,500-3,500 BC: Rise of Agriculture

3,500 BC: Civilizations appear in Mesopotamia and Egypt

559-323 BC: Persian Empire

499-449 BC: Persian Wars

499-336 BC: Rise of Greek Power

336-323 BC: Alexander the Great conquers the known world

323-146 BC: Hellenistic Greece

146 BC- 476 AD: Age of Rome

476-1000: The Dark Ages

1000-1300: High Middle Ages

1300-1500: Late Middle Ages

1500-1800: Renaissance, Reformation, and Empire

1689-1815: Age of Enlightenment

1815-1945: European Empires rule the world

1945-present: The American Age

Timeline Ancient Mesopotamia

5400 B.C.: City of Eridu founded

4300-3100 B.C.: Uruk Period

2334-2279 B.C.: Sargon the Great creates the world’s first empire

2100 B.C.: First known legal code

2000 B.C.: The Epic of Gilgamesh is written

1760 B.C.: The Code of Hammurabi

1595 B.C.: Babylon sacked

1350-1250 B.C.: The Hittite Empire peaks

750-700 B.C.: Assyrian Empire peaks

612 B.C.: Assyrian Empire collapses

605-562 B.C.: Nebuchadnezzar II reigns in Babylon

597-538 B.C.: The Babylonian Exile

539 B.C. Persia conquers Babylon

History Shorts: 5000-1250 B.C.

The Ten Commandments:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-shorts-ten-commandments-1250-bc.html

Atlantis:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-shorts-atlantis-1600-bc.html

The Code of Hammurabi

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-shorts-code-of-hammurabi-1790.html

The Domestication of the Horse:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-shorts-domestication-of-horse.html

The Birth of China:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-shorts-birth-of-chinese.html

The Pyramids:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-shorts-pyramids-2600-bc.html

Story Telling:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/07/history-shorts-story-telling-and.html

Mesopotamia:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/06/history-shorts-mesopotamia.html

History Shorts: Mesopotamia

After agriculture, civilization developed. One of the first took root in Mesopotamia...if you don't believe me, ask Fred Schneider!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLfbu7NzBWI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMRTGv82Zo